They Are Night Zombies!! They Are Neighbors!! They Have Come Back from the Dead!! Ahhhh!
Sufjan Stevens
얼터너티브
31,706
크레딧
실연 아티스트
Sufjan Stevens
피아노
Beccy Lock
합창단
Craig Montoro
보컬
Jennifer Hoover
합창단
Julianne Carney
바이올린
Katrina Kerns
합창단
Maria Bella Jeffers
첼로
Marla Hansen
비올라
Rob Moose
바이올린
Tara McDonnell
합창단
Tom Eaton
합창단
작곡 및 작사
Sufjan Stevens
작사가 겸 작곡가
프로덕션 및 엔지니어링
Sufjan Stevens
프로듀서
Alan Douches
마스터링 엔지니어
가사
[Chorus]
I-L-L-I-N-O-I-S
Ring the bell and call or write us
I-L-L-I-N-O-I-S
Can you call the Captain Clitus?
Who will save it?
Logan, Grant, and Ronald Reagan
Dedicate it?
In the grave with Xylophagan
Who will praise it?
Do you know the ghost community?
Commemorate it for you?
Sound the horn, address the city
[Verse 1]
We are awakened with the ax
Night of the living dead at last
They have begun to shake the dirt
Wiping their shoulders from the earth
I know, I know the nations past
I know, I know they rust at last
They tremble with the nervous thought
Of having been, at last, forgot
[Chorus]
I-L-L-I-N-O-I-S
Ring the bell and call or write us
I-L-L-I-N-O-I-S
Can you call the Captain Clitus?
Who will save it?
B-U-D-A, Caledonia
Dedicate it?
S-E-C-O-R, Magnolia
Who will praise it?
B-I-R-D-S, and Kankakees
Commemorate it for you?
Evansville and Parker City
[Verse 2]
Speaking their names, they shake the flag
Waking the earth, it lifts and lags
We see a thousand rooms to rest
Helping us taste the bite of death
I know, I know my time is passed
I'm not so young, I'm not so fast
I tremble with the nervous thought
Of having been, at last, forgot
[Chorus]
I-L-L-I-N-O-I-S
Ring the bell and call or write us
I-L-L-I-N-O-I-S
Can you call the Captain Clitus?
Who will save it?
Comer and Potato Peelers
Dedicate it?
G-R-E-E-N Ridge, Reeders
Who will praise it?
M-C-V-E-Y, and Horace
Commemorate it for you?
E-N-O-S, start the chorus
[Chorus]
Who will save it?
Corn and farms and tombs in Lemmon
Sailor Springs and all things feminine
Centerville and Old Metropolis
Shawneetown, you trade and topple us
I-L-L-I-N-O-I-S
Hold your tongue and don't divide us
I-L-L-I-N-O-I-S
Land of God, you hold and guide us
Written by: Sufjan Stevens
